Title
Awarding Request for Proposals for mowing services for the City of Deer Park.
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Summary:
The City of Deer Park Parks and Recreation Department solicited request for proposals from vendors to complete mowing services on City maintained medians, entrances, and rights of ways around the City of Deer Park. The City received six (6) proposals for mowing and edging services on September 10th, 2021. Proposals received were from Special Touch Landscaping, Brushmasters II, LTD, Merriam Group LLC, Houston Grotech Services, Horticaree Landscape Management, Unicare Building Maintenance.
Based on the submitted proposals and scoring mechanism used to determine the best mowing services contract which are attached is Merriam Group, LLC. Selected by committee of staff members. This contract will include the below listed services. The contract is to begin October 1, 2021 and end on September 30, 2022. This contract has the option to renew up to 3 concurrent years.
Areas to be serviced include:
Area D.1
• Medians on East Blvd.
• Stormwater drain inlets on East Blvd.
Area D.2
• Right-of-ways-along the side of East. Blvd.
• Stormwater drain inlets on East Blvd.
• Right-of-ways along the side of East X Street
• Right-of-ways along Aaron St.
Area E.1
• Amy Street Spillway
• Cloudcroft cul-de-sac
• Oklahoma subdivision entrance
• Bayou Bend Esplanades
• Kingsdale Facility
Area E.2
• Catalina Detention Pond
• Chandler Detention Pond
The Parks and Recreation Department has evaluated the proposals received. The areas to be serviced are very visible areas in the City and it is critical that the contractor possess the proper equipment, personnel, knowledge and experience to undertake this contract. The City utilized the request for proposals method for this solicitation.
After reviewing the six (6) proposals for mowing services from the request for proposal process; staff recommends that the mowing services be awarded to Merriam Group LLC for the amount of $66,822.00. Please see attached documents
Fiscal/Budgetary Impact:
$66,822.00 from 010-432-42900
Recommended action
Authorization to award contract for mowing services to Merriam Group, LLC for the amount of $66,822.00